Determination of Mobile Device Location and Time for an Associated Printing Device

1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed cause a processing resource of a remote printing service to: receive a request to print content at a particular printing device identified in the request for a mobile device; in response to the request, determine whether the mobile device is located less than a threshold distance from the particular printing device; in response to determination that the mobile device is located more than the threshold distance from the particular printing device, determine whether the mobile device has been located more than the threshold distance from the identified printing device for more than a threshold amount of time; in response to a determination that the mobile device has been located more than the threshold distance from the particular printing device for more than the threshold amount of time, select an alternate content destination and send the content to the alternate content destination instead of the particular printing device; and in response to a determination that the mobile device has been located more than the threshold distance from the identified printing device for less than the threshold amount of time, send the content to the particular printing device for printing.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein to select the alternate content destination, the instructions are to cause the processing resource of the remote printing service to select an alternate printing device located within the threshold distance from the mobile device to print the content.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein: the alternate content destination is a user email address associated with the particular printing device; and to make the content available to the alternate content destination, the instructions are to cause the processing resource to provide the content via email to the user email address based on the request and the determination that the mobile device has been located more than the threshold distance from the particular printing device for more than the threshold amount of time.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein: the request to print the content comprises an email message addressed to a destination email address assigned to the particular printing device, and the email message indicates the content to be printed.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions to acquire comprise instructions to receive the request from a subscription service to provide different pieces of subscription content to the particular printing device in accordance with a predefined schedule, wherein the content is one of the pieces of subscription content.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further to cause the processing resource to: in response to a detection that the request to print the content includes an indication to bypass the selection of the alternate content destination, make the content available to the particular printing device regardless of whether the mobile device has been located outside of the threshold distance of the particular printing device for more than the threshold amount of time.

7. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are to cause the processing resource to: in response to a determination that the mobile device has been located more than the threshold distance of the particular printing device for less than the threshold amount of time, send the content to the particular printing device for printing.

8. A system implementing a remote printing service, the system comprising: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the processor to: acquire a request to print content at a destination printing device identified in the request; in response to the request, determine whether, at the time of the determination, a mobile device, associated with the destination printing device, is geographically located less than a threshold distance from the destination printing device; in response to determination that the mobile device is geographically located more than the threshold distance from the destination printing device, determine whether the mobile device has been located more than the threshold distance from the destination printing device for more than a threshold amount of time; in response to a determination that the mobile device has been geographically located more than the threshold distance from the destination printing device for more than the threshold amount of time, select an alternate content destination and send the content to the alternate content destination instead of the destination printing device; and in response to a determination that the mobile device has been geographically located more than the threshold distance from the destination printing device for less than the threshold amount of time, send the content to the destination printing device for printing.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the instructions are to cause the processor to: acquire a mobile device identifier for the mobile device and associate, in the remote printing service, the mobile device identifier with a printing device identifier assigned to the destination printing device; and determine a location of the destination printing device and associate the location of the destination printing device with the printing device identifier in the remote printing service.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the instructions to cause the processor to select an alternate content destination include instructions to cause the processor to: select an alternate printing device as the alternate content destination and send the content to the alternate printing device for printing.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the instructions are to cause the processor to: acquire a user email address of a user of the mobile device and associate the user email address with the printer device identifier in the remote printing service; and based on a determination that the mobile device is located more than the threshold distance from the alternate printing device and the determination that the mobile device has been geographically located more than the threshold distance from the destination printing device for more than the threshold amount of time, select the user email address as the alternate content destination and provide the content via email to the user email address.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein: the printing device identifier is a destination email address assigned to the destination printing device, and the request comprises an email addressed to the destination email address.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein: the threshold amount of time is a continuous duration of time immediately preceding the determination whether the mobile device has been geographically located more than the threshold distance from the destination printing device for more than the threshold amount of time; and the instructions are to cause the processor to, based on the determination that the mobile device has been geographically located more than the threshold distance from the destination printing device for less than the threshold amount of time, make the content available to the destination printing device regardless of a location of the mobile device.

14. A method comprising: monitoring, by a processor of a printing service, a location of a mobile device associated with a first printing device; receiving, by the processor, a request to print content at the first printing device for the mobile device; in response to the request, determining, by the processor, whether the mobile device is geographically located less than a threshold distance from the first printing device; in response to a determination that the mobile device is located more than the threshold distance from the first printing device, determining, by the processor, whether the mobile device has been geographically located more than the threshold distance from the first printing device for more than a threshold amount of time; in response to a determination that the mobile device has been geographically located more than the threshold distance from the first printing device for more than the threshold amount of time, identifying, by the processor, a second printing device located less than the threshold distance from the mobile device, and send the content to the second printing device for printing.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising: in response to a determination that the mobile device has been geographically located more than the threshold distance from the first printing device for less than the threshold amount of time, send the content to the first printing device for printing.

16. The method of claim 14 , further comprising: in response to a determination that the second printing device is located more than the threshold distance from the mobile device, providing the content via email to an email address of a user.